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S.S. IR PPL TO KNOW
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John Phillip Sousa- composer and conductor | Know as the march king, wrote over 100 marches for military bands around the world. He also preformed all over the world, invented the sousaphone, wrote STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER and SIMPER FIDELES, conducted the presidents own marine corp band |
| Irving Berlin- Composer and lyricist | wrote American musicals(This is the Army), wrote over 1500 songs, wrote ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND and WHITE CHRISTMAS, wrote GOD BLESS AMERICA, presented an American Gold Medal by president Eisenhower for his contributions to American music |
| Karl Marx | German wired who proposed the idea of socialism (led to communism) |
| Jules Verne | wrote FANTASY science fiction stories. He influenced future inventions including rockets, tazers, and space travel. (voyage to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) |
| Edgar Degas- artist and sculptor | one of the founding embers of impressionist movement in art, captured movement on canvas, painted jockeys and dances in Paris, stopped painting because his eye sight got bad(began sculpting), most famous sculpture was the Little Dancer |
| Lumier Brothers- inventors | invented the cinematograph/camera&projector&printer all in one, made the world's first public film,opened the world first cinema, made over 1400 films(most were very short), trained and sent film operators all over the world |
| Augustus Renoir-artist | important impressionist(still life and scenes of people), painted many children/ Girl With Watering CAn,painted with short brush strokes, painted with vivd colors, stepped brush to his arthritic hands in old age, |
| Claude Debussy- composer- wrote for piano, small ensembles, and symphonies | led the impressionist music movement, changed the music direction from Romantic to Modern, greatly influenced Ballet, expanded the limos of music, wrote CLARE DE LUNE |
| H.G. Wells- writer and novelist | father of Sy-Fy, wrote Time Machine;War of the Worlds; The Invisible Man, mad e predictions about the future that came true( WW II, nuclear warfare), very political & worked for social equality and the good of mankind, wrote frighting and violent fiction |
| Aaron Copland- american composer | composed daring pieces that "sounded like america", included folk & popular tunes in his music, wrote ballets & symphonies/ Rodeo), wrote movie scores, wanted to show america through music/ wanted music 2 b apart of every americans life |
| Mark Twain- writer and humorist | born and died on days Haley's comet was visible, worked as a steam boat pilot on the mississippi, real name was Samuel Clemens, lectured all over the world, wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn both about life on the Mississippi |
| John Kay | flying shuttle which led to power looms |
| James Hargreaves | spinning jenny |
| Eli Whitney | cotton gin and interchangeable parts on assembly lines |
| Charles Dickens | showed social problems& real events of poor people, created memorable characters(Scrooge), inspired other writers worldwide |
| Queen Victoria | celebrated golden(50) and diamond(60) jubilees, longest ruling monarch in britain, ruled during IR, good sense of humor, Grandmother of Europe |
| Claude Monet- father of impressionism | inspired by japanese prints, famous for water lilies, woman in parasol, painted his impression of what he saw, the Boat studio( studio on the water) |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- 1st detective writer | invented sherlock Holmes character, was involved in spiritualism and tried to find proof of existence after death, proved innocence of real people, published a position paper on the Boar war, worked to gain freedom for the Congo state |
| George Eastman-inventor | developed continuos film for cameras, made cameras more portable; affordable; and easy to use, founded the EAstman Kodak Company, donated most of his estate to the university of Rochester & funded the EAstman school of Music, Kodak is going Bankrupt |
| Marconi-scientist and inventor | discovered radio waves, invented a radio that broadcast sound over waves, the radio provided entertainment; news; and better communication, explored radio signaling, the radio helped soldiers signal each other during battle |
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